Waiter, Make Mine Blues

Waiter, Make Mine Blues
Studio album by
Released1961
RecordedAugust 1, October 4, 7, Los Angeles
GenreVocal jazz
Length37:30
LabelVerve
Anita O'Day chronology
Anita O'Day and Billy May Swing Rodgers and Hart
(1960)
Waiter, Make Mine Blues
(1961)
Trav'lin' Light
(1961)

Waiter, Make Mine Blues is a vocal jazz album by Anita O'Day released in April 1961 on Verve Records. This was the tenth record that Anita O'Day made for Norman Granz's Verve records. It was recorded in 1960 on August 1, October 4 and October 7 in Los Angeles, California.[1][2] Arranged by Russ Garcia, the record has been described as "forties swing based", with a contrasting "boppish alto solo" by saxophonist Bud Shank on "Whatever Happened to You?"[3]

  1. ^ "Verve Records Catalog: Popular 2100 series". jazzdisco.org. 2003–2011.
  2. ^ "allmusic/Waiter, Make Mine Blues". Jason Ankeny/Rovi corporation. 2011.
  3. ^ Friedwald, Will (2010). A Biographical Guide To The Great Jazz and Pop Singers. New York: Pantheon. p. 360; 832. ISBN 978-0-375-42149-5.